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Lot Essay
The form of this vase is based on 'arrow' vases, or touhu, the primary accessory of a drinking game which involved throwing all of one's arrows into the mouth of the vessel. The loser was assessed a penalty drink for every errant throw. Too small to actually be used in the drinking game, the present vase was probably intended to hold flowers, perhaps on a home altar.
A Longquan celadon vase of this type, but of smaller size (16.8 cm.) and with a more slender neck, was included in the exhibition, The Scholar as Collector: Chinese Art at Yale, Yale University Art Gallery and China Institute in America, New York, 2004, p. 18, fig. 8.
A Longquan celadon vase of this type, but of smaller size (16.8 cm.) and with a more slender neck, was included in the exhibition, The Scholar as Collector: Chinese Art at Yale, Yale University Art Gallery and China Institute in America, New York, 2004, p. 18, fig. 8.